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This paper examines the relationship among poverty, economic growth, and inequality by decomposing poverty changes at subnational levels. The results were examined against the performances of the different economic sectors in the regions to understand the relationships while accounting for the...
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This paper focuses on the importance data issues to the analysis of growth, poverty and economic inequality. We introduce a number of major databases frequently used in applied research on growth, poverty and global and international inequality. A discussion of data quality, data consistency,...
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composition, employment level, etc.). Then, the decomposition helps to extract an absolute measure of the impact of tax … countries. Finally, the full decomposition allows quantifying the relative role of policy changes compared to all other factors …. We provide an illustration for France and Ireland and check the sensitivity of the results to the decomposition order. …
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Empirical evidence suggests that regional disparities in incomes are often very high, that these disparities do not necessarily disappear as economies grow and that these disparities are itself an important driver of growth. We use a novel approach based on multilevel modeling to decompose the...
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composition, employment level, etc.). Then, the decomposition helps to extract an absolute measure of the impact of tax … countries. Finally, the full decomposition allows quantifying the relative role of policy changes compared to all other factors …. We provide an illustration on France and Ireland and check the sensitivity of the results to the decomposition order. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272356
of these attributes on deprivation using Oaxaca-type decomposition methods. Empirical results for both decomposition …
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This paper applies a new decomposition technique to the study of variations in poverty across the regions of Russia …
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The paper examines the performance of the Philippines with respect to the fight against poverty. It reviews the trends in poverty using the various human development indicators. It also examines the changes in the policy environment over the last 25 years. It identifies issues relating to...
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The literature shows that regional disparities in growth and poverty are often relatively high, that these regional disparities do not necessarily disappear as the economies grow and develop and that these disparities are itself in many cases an important driver of the overall performance of an...
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To assess the impact of tax-benefit policy changes on income distribution over time, we suggest a decomposition … inequality measures and check the sensitivity of the results to the decomposition order. …
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